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Cl 6. *. fii' Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas EAR, NO. 71 CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1958 EIGHT PAGES THIS ISSUE liool Integration Appeal Denied v S. ' ' LL PUT MONEY RIGHT HERE—This is a sample of the Tiatic, dual-type parking meter machine which will be put ation in Chapel Hill's business aiea in about six weeks. In f the machines will be in operation. News Leader Photo ntract Approved ' Parking Meters OPLE Brief r RHYNE, ASSOCIATE : the UNC Extension Di charge of evening class- nounced that six classes :ered for the 1958-59 fall beginning Sept. 17. The elude Freshman ^Inglish, ice and mathematics and ing sophomore electives: classics and economics. )n will be held Monday ay evening from 7 to 9 lernethy Hall. JERT A. ROSS OF THE ’s School of Medicine is dent-elect of the Ameri- iation of Obstetricians eologists, having been ; the association’s 69th eeting at Hot Springs, i^eek. R CLARK OF CHAPEL more than a little inter day night at the Board en meeting when a hear- : Connor Ridge shopping ne up. Seems Mr. Clark le stages of building a en the rezoning of the up, and, when a Plan 'd recommendation was educe the immediate re- 20 acres, his property ut. Promises of compen- the property seemed to r. Clark. LDERMEN, INCIDENT- ded to have automatic eters instead of manual- nachines on a motion by Id W. M’alters, who said n’t think this town’s ab- !d professors could get I a manual machine.” Plagued By Assignment Problems School Board Hits Back At N eigh boring Counties It's assignment troubles on all sides as lar as the Orange C.ounty Board of Education is concerned. Tlie board learned Monday night that 11 pupils, nietu- bers of the Kirby families, who live in Orange County in the Aycock district, had entered school at Prospect Hill in Cas well County, at the urging of the Caswell school folks. Board Members John E .Hawkins, stung by the refusal of Person County’s board to per- — mit 13 Person border-line pupils to attend Aycock as they had been do ing for many years, moved that Orange County “demand the return of the children or credit for their attendance,” and the board voted with him unanimously. Aycock stands to lose another teacher un less the cuts are restored. The board then, in apparent re taliation for Person County’s re fusal to permit the 13 White stu dents from across the line to at tend Aycock School, voted to re assign some 19 or 20 Negro stu dents from Person and Caswell counties, who were enrolled at the Cedar Grove Negro Elementary School, back to their respective counties. They noted that return would probably cost a teacher at the school next year and possibly save the construction of another new classroom which had already been requested. Chairman Charles Stanford, wor ried about the dwindling attend- Orientation Is Underway At University ■^^New students hold the spotlight at UNC this week as they partici pate in the orientational program of speeches, placement testing, campus tours and entertainment. Some 1,100 freshmen are ex pected to have registered before classes begin Sept. 28, along with several hundred transfer students. New students gathered on the campus yesterday and today when dormitories opened. Convocations of men and women students, both freshmen and transfer, formally open the program tonight. Chancellor William B. Aycock will address the newcomers Friday at 8 p.m. in newly-renovated Mem orial Hall. Other Friday events will luirsday. Sept. 11 - Comammity Council Mwii Hall. Friday, Sept. 12 - Lincoln High School vs. High School, Carrboro i. ilonday, Sept. 15 5’ Welcome Day for new - Oakview Garden Club home of Mrs. J. C. D. 11 picnic Chapel Hill residents and visi tors will be paying for their down town parking space in about six weeks. The town’s Board of Aldermen Monday night approved a contract for 405 automatic meters. The $24,826.50 pact is for the period of one year, after which time Chapel Hill can either return the meters to the company. Dual Parking Me ter Co., Canton, 0., or keep them. The dual-type meters were se lected from' seven investigated. The dual meters will be used ex cept when a single meter for a space is required because of area. An officii of the company, Alex Andrews, said the meters should arrive and be installed in about 45 days. Among other action taken by the Aldermen Monday: Referred to a streeL committee a request for installation of a traf fic light at the Estes Hills Road- Durham Highway junction. Voted expenditure of $231 for various repairs to the Negro Com munity Center, $150 of which is for a used stoker furnace. Decided on a median price of $2.69 as the basis of price per run ning foot for curb and gutter im provements. Truck Purchase Ok'd Authorized Town Manager Tom Rose to negotiate for purchase of new garbage truck. Rose told the group that he had priced one truck at $5,600, and proposed that $3,000 of its cost come from the town’s contingency fund, the rest fi'om the budget. He said that the town has three such trucks cur rently, but that two are in poor re pair. Authorized Town Attorney Jack LeGrand to altei an ordinance and provide for parallel parking in dl-ea on the south side of Franklin St. across from the Belk-Leggett- Horton store. Referred to the town manager for investigation a claim from Walter Neville that the town alleg es owes him $44.30 for damages to property while running a sewer line. And also referred to Mr. Rose for study a complaint from Mrs. Louis MacMillan against the use of banners in residential areas. Ackland Reinternment Held On Wednesday Re-internment for William Hayes Ackland, benefactor of the new Ackland Art Museum which is to be dedicated at the University Sept. 20. were held Wednesday at the museum. Participating in the services were trustees of the Ackland Es tate and University officiaks. ance at White Cross, demanded the proficiency return of the A. G. Crawford chil- physical exams and honor system lectures. Herman Godwin Jr. of Dunn heads the men’s orientation pro- dren, who had enrolled at Hills boro but who reside in the White Cro^s district. On the motion of Clarence gram, and Miss Katie Stewart of Jones, the board acted favorably on Norfolk, Va., is women’s orienta- the application of a child resid- (.jgjj chairman ing on Highway lO in the Murphey Weekend activities will include district to attend school at Cameron fjjg annual Chancellor’s Reception Park, furnishing his own trans- jo Graham Memorial Student portation. Uniori^ from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sun- Other assignment incidents noted day, and a Student Government on the first day included requests meeting at 8:'30 that night in from West Hillsboro residSnts to Memorial Hall, attend Cameron Park and an at- in addition to the full schedule tempt of some Hillsboro district of tests and interviews and lec- students to enroll at Efland, both tures which will keep the new- of which were denied. Oxford Next Football Foe For Wildcats Chapel Hill's Wildcats go after their secqnd victory of -the season tomorrow night at Oxford. Coach Bob Culton’s youngsters, 6-0 victors over Southern of Dur ham last week on the Rebel’s field, will be favored over 'an Ox ford team that was plastered in its opener against Roxboro last week, 34-13. However, the Wildcats can be expected to be wary against an ex plosive Oxford offense. On their first play from scrimmage in last week’s contest, Oxford went some 60 yards for a touchdown on a pass-and-run clicker. Chapel Hill will probably rely again on a tight defense, a trade mark of Culton teams. Against Southern, the Cultoners scored early and then depended on a tight defense to thwart numerous Rebel threats. Apex Negro Is Sentenced For Larceny Judge William S. Stewart Tues day sentenced a 36-year-old Negro to six months in jail after the man pleaded guilty to robbing the Belk- Leggett-Horton Department Store in Chapel Hill Aug. 28. Upon sentencing Lewis C. Beck- nell of Apex, N. C.. on the lar ceny charge. Judge Stewart recom mended that Becknell be examined by a physician “to determine whether he can be safely confin ed.” The man reportedly has a heart condition. Becknell first demanded a jury trial but later changed his plea to guilty. He was charged, specifical ly, with taking $77 in money and checks from a cash register at the store. comers busy during the next sev en days, the orientation includes such events as field day, open houses, Planetarium shows, wor ship services and coffee hours. Weather REPORTS Diminishing cloudiness and cool er today. High 74-80. Fair and 'cool tonight, with low 48-54. To morrow mostly fair and cool. High in the 70’s. High Low Rainfall Monday 90 '57 .00 Tuesday 84 48 .00 Wednesday 78 54 .00 I'lie Oranoe .County Board of Education Monday night, J'ollotvino- an exliaustive Itear- ing, denied the appeal of the Carrboro Negro couple seek ing to reverse the previous de cision assigning their child to Chapel Hill’s Northside ele mentary school. The parents, Lee and Lat tice Vickers, had protested the assignment of their child to the Negro school and sought a trans fer to the all-White Carrboro Ele mentary School. Their original re quest for transfer had been denied and Monday’s meeting was in the nature of a hearing as provided in the machinery of the so-called Pearsall Plan. In their appeal the 'Vickers couple contended that the board’s assignment of their child to the Negro school was “discrimination based upon race and our child is entitled to go to the school in the district in which he lives, not withstanding his race.” Their ap peal notice further requested that “you cease operating the school system on a racial, discriminatory basis.” In examining Vickers, who was accompanied by C. O. Pier.son, Negro attorney of Durham who has been involved in most of the segregation cases in this area as attorney tor the NAACP and oth er groups, members of the board noted that the additional expense and inconvenience of attending the more distant school had been largely mitigated by the -provision of free sehool bus transportation for the child. They then asked Vickers what benefits he thought would accrue to his child by as signment to the Carrboro- school. Vickers answered he thought it was a “better school.” Member-elect Ross Porter, ques tioning Vickers at this time, said, “We have every reason to assume the opposite.” And Superintendent G. Paul Carr described the extra financial support received by the Chapel Hill schools in the form of supplementary taxes which en ables an “enriched academic pro gram” which is not provided in the county system. Pressed further for elaboration, Vickers, who is houseman at Sig ma Nu fraternity, said he meant it was a “better building.” No indication was given by Vickers or his attorney as to wheth er they would now proceed to court litigation. At the conclusion of the hearing Pierson filed notices of appeal on behalf of the four children of Darnell and Clara Walden, another Carrboro couple who are seeking to have their children transfered. Present for the hearing Monday night in addition to Vickers, the Walden couple and their attorneys' Pierson and C., O. Pierson Jr., wei'e Mary Nies, D. A. Okun and Pres ton Weaver of Chapel Hill and Carl Braden of Louisville, Ky., field secretary of the Southern Con ference Educational Fund, Inc. PUT RIGHT TO WORK—After Chapel Hill's Board of Aldermen elected Richard P. Calhoon to a seat on the board Monday night. Recorder's Judge William S. Stewart (leftV was called right in and the new alderman sworn in and put right to work. The above was taken immediately after Judge Stewart had administered the oath of office to Calhoon (right.) News Leader Photo R. P. Calhoon Named ToServe As Alderman Aldermen Defer Action I ■ On Connor Ridge Zoning Cha,pel Hill’s Board of Alderman have under 'study a recommenda tion that 20 acres in the Connor Ridge area be rezoned to permit proposed construction of a big shopping center. Members of the board “tempor arily deferred'’ action on the recom- ■mendation from the Town Planning Board which would pave the way for construction, over a 10-year pe riod, of a $2,500,000 center. The rezoning, from agricultural and A-15 to suburban commercial, is being sought by Security Homes of Raleigh, which has announced intentions of constructing the “long- range’’ shopping area. Opposition to the rezoniiig ap peared from another group rep resented by Attorney Ralph Stray- horn, Durham, wich has a con tract to buy a 10-acre site only 1,500 feet away from the proposed Security Houes site. Strayhorn, who said he was speak ing for the owners—-.David Royslei Sr., and David Royster Jr., of Shelby, Andy Karres, Charlotte, and Dick Young, Chapel Hill- charged that the Chapel Hill-Carr- boro area, which he said has about 20,000 population, “cannot support two shopping centers only 1,500 feet apart.” The KoysLer-Karres-Young pi op'Ci'ty has already been rezoned suburban commerical, and Karres, who also was at the hearing, said that the granting of rezoning to the Raleigh interest would “destroy our property’s value.” Strayhorn also charged that Se curity Ho'mes is “receiving a $250.- 000 windfall from Chapel Hill.” He based this, he said, on the point that his firm paid $50,000 for the 10-acre rezoned site and Security Homes, “so I hear,” is buying 60 acres for about “$700 or $800 an aevc.'' Strayhorn Speaks' Strayhorn, who said his firm had several leading national firms con tracted for the center and “five or six local merchant's," concluded by saying, “I believe justice, fairness and morals are on our side.” Speaking tor Security Homes be fore the .board were.E. N. Rich- See ACTION DEFERRED, Page 8 Chapel Hill's Board of Aldermen again has a full complement of six ■nrambers. Portj'>.six-year-old Ric- ard P. Calhoon, professor of per sonnel administration at the Univer sity, was elected Monday night, sworn in on the spot and put right to work. Mr. Calhoon replaces Roland Giduz, editor of the News Leader, who resigned to accept a study grant at Harvliard University, Cam bridge, Mass. The new board member wa.s elected unanimously after the group had first named Rogers Wade to the post, only to have him turn it down. Mr. Wad'e was elected to the board at one time only to be re- leivecl ol the oltice wiien it was learned he was not a qilahfied voter Carrboro's Board Will Try Tightening Motel Ordinance Carrboro’s Town Commissioners have decided to amend the town’s zoning ordinance and tighten reg ulations’ on motels and house trailers. Mayor -R. B. Todd said the ordinance, in effect, will “elim inate” them. Previously, the only require ments on trailers and motels con cerned footage. Mr. Todd said the group will seat a hearing soon to attach an amendment to the zoning ordi nance, which he said will be sim ilar to Chapel Hill’s ordinance when completed. In other action at the Tuesday night meeting, the council ap proved purchase of 12 fire-call boxes at a total expense of $850. The boxes, which will be placed in the homes of 12 firemen, oper ate as one-way radio sets to inform them of fire calls. In the past, sirens have alerted the firemen to assemble at the fire house for a call. Author-Playwright Noel Houston Taken By Death Funeral services were held today for Noel Houston of Chapel Hill, playwright, novelist, short story writer and University instructor who died after a brief illness Tuesday in North Carolina Memorial Hos pital at the age of 49. Graveside services were held this morning at th’e Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, with Rev. Vance Barron officiating. Mr. Houstpn had under gone a. stomach operation Aug. 6 and was believed recuperating when complications developed. A native of Lawton, Okla., Mr. Houston came here to study in 1939. Since last fall, he had been an in structor in the UNC Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pic tures, teachiijg script writing. One novel, “The Great Promise,” sold 600,000 copies, and a play, “Stretch on the River,” draimata- ziation of the Richard B i s s e l 1 novel, is under option to Columbia Pictures, which has not as yet put it into production. He was also a frequent contributor of short stories (0 The New Yorker, CoUier’s, Amer ican Mercury and Holiday maga zines. Mr. Houston was born March 26, 1909, in Lawton, the son of the late Ross Houston and Frances Houston, who survives. He completed high school in Oklahoma City, attended Oklalioma City University 1926-27, and the Oklahoma City Law School 1933-34. jFrom 1928 until 1934, he was (re porter, city editor and telegraph editor for the Oklahoma News and wrote aU art, music, tiieater and movie reviews. Among his col leagues was Mike Mom-oney, now Oklahoma senator. He began as a copy boy for tlie newspaper. He moved, in May of 1934, to the DaUy Oklahomap in Oklahoma City, covering mainly general assign ments and features and writing re views. He also covered tlie state house and legislature and once had a six-weeks assignment in Holly wood writing on mamiers and per sonalities in the movie capital. He came to UNC in 1937 and be gan his creative writing career with a series of experimental plays. He won a Rockefeller Fellowship for piaywriting 1938-39, which was re newed in 1939-49. In 1040-41, he had a Dramatist Guild Fellowship and produced plays at Oklahoma City University, the University of Oklahoma in Nor man, and UNC. He won the Amer ican Civil Liberties Union prize for a play illustrating the Bill of Rights • in action. The play, “According to Law,'’ was produced at the -Provin (See NOEL HOUSTON, Page 8) NOEL I'C'JSTOr News Leader Photo R. P. CALHOON and theretore not eligible. Mr. Calhoon brings a long and diversified business background to the job, which he will hold until next May. A native of Sewickley, Pa., born Feb. 3. 1909, the new alderman graduated from the University of Pittisbui'gh with a Bachelor of arts degree in 1930 and with a mastei- of arts in 1932. He taught at the Pittsburgh school until 1334, when he became labor adjuster for the N. I. R. A. in Pittsburgh. He then was assistant to the fac tory manager at the Ansco Com pany, Bingha.mpton, N. Y.,1938-37; public relations, training and safety director for the U. S, Rubber Co., at Naugatuck, Conn., 1937-40; per sonnel director of Kendall Mills, Charlotte, 11)41-46; and since that time professor of personnel admiu- i.^tratioii at the University. Consultant, Arbitrator Mr. Calhoon is a member.of num erous groups connected with per sonnel administration, hs consultant in the field for some North Caro lina business firms, and is an arbi trator for the A.merican Arbritra- 1-ion Association, tlve Federal Media tion and Consiliation Service, and the North Carolina State Labor De partment. He is author of four book.s and numerous research publications and articles. The new alderman lives at 104 Pine Lane with his wife, Frances; three daughters, Kitty. 14, Susan, 13, and Carol, 9; and a son, Bruce, 5. SPEAKER NAMED Art educator, critic and author S. Lane Faison Jr. of 'Williain- stown, Mass, will give the main address here Sept. 20 at the dedi cation of the Ackland Art Center on the UNC campus. Aft authori ties from throughout the nation, as well as North Carolina officials, are expected to be on hand for the c.pcning of the center, named for its donor, 'WMlliam Ha.yes Ackland,
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